Shorter Golf Swing Drill 6 Pitch your driver (Video) - by Pete Styles
Shorter Golf Swing Drill 6 Pitch your driver (Video) - by Pete Styles

Do you often see how golfers have really good, smooth, rhythmical swings with their short irons, swinging that pitching wedge just nicely to the two o’clock line and back down again, yet when they get the big stick out of that bag, suddenly they turn into John Daly? The length of the golf swings out of control. The speed of the golf swings out of control. The left arm, the left wrist all collapsing, getting all sorts of out of position and the golf ball reflects that out of control backswing by being out of control in terms of its flight as well.

So one thing I would like you to focus on is if you do have good control swings with pitching wedges, actually feel like you swing your driver as if it’s a pitching wedge. Don’t focus on hitting the big bombs. Just focus on hitting control pitches with the driver. And I reckon you’d be really surprise how far this ball can go.

So I set myself with my normal driver stance and the ball would be a long way forward in my feet. I'm not going to set it up in the middle like I would for pitching wedge, but set up towards my front foot. And I’ve got a good distance away from it. But then my actual swing is much more the rhythm and the timing of a normal pitching action, start up small and then build it up. So if my normal set up position just a little pitch, I knock my driver away. And then granted that’s not full power for me. That is not as far as I would normally hit my driver. But it’s got a surprising distance for the amount of effort that I felt like I put in to it. And it really have a lot more control to the swing because it wasn’t so fly away and has a control at the top.

So if you’re struggling with how far you’re normally swinging your driver and the lack of control above there for induces in your game, pitch your driver, set up to the ball like a copper driver, make a little pitching backswing and just knock it through, and feel how that takes away a little bit of distance but adds a little bit more control to your game. Once you’re happy doing that pitching exercise, start to feed a bit more power back in gradually, but make sure the club doesn’t cross the dreaded three o’clock line. Keep it short than three o’clock. Pitch your driver for more control.

 2012-11-29

Do you often see how golfers have really good, smooth, rhythmical swings with their short irons, swinging that pitching wedge just nicely to the two o’clock line and back down again, yet when they get the big stick out of that bag, suddenly they turn into John Daly? The length of the golf swings out of control. The speed of the golf swings out of control. The left arm, the left wrist all collapsing, getting all sorts of out of position and the golf ball reflects that out of control backswing by being out of control in terms of its flight as well.

So one thing I would like you to focus on is if you do have good control swings with pitching wedges, actually feel like you swing your driver as if it’s a pitching wedge. Don’t focus on hitting the big bombs. Just focus on hitting control pitches with the driver. And I reckon you’d be really surprise how far this ball can go.

So I set myself with my normal driver stance and the ball would be a long way forward in my feet. I'm not going to set it up in the middle like I would for pitching wedge, but set up towards my front foot. And I’ve got a good distance away from it. But then my actual swing is much more the rhythm and the timing of a normal pitching action, start up small and then build it up. So if my normal set up position just a little pitch, I knock my driver away. And then granted that’s not full power for me. That is not as far as I would normally hit my driver. But it’s got a surprising distance for the amount of effort that I felt like I put in to it. And it really have a lot more control to the swing because it wasn’t so fly away and has a control at the top.

So if you’re struggling with how far you’re normally swinging your driver and the lack of control above there for induces in your game, pitch your driver, set up to the ball like a copper driver, make a little pitching backswing and just knock it through, and feel how that takes away a little bit of distance but adds a little bit more control to your game. Once you’re happy doing that pitching exercise, start to feed a bit more power back in gradually, but make sure the club doesn’t cross the dreaded three o’clock line. Keep it short than three o’clock. Pitch your driver for more control.